Category: Presidents
Inside Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital
Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital is a place Phyllis Hall knew well. As a nurse, she had worked in the room many times. She…
A Part of Presidential History in Dallas
Phyllis Hall worked in the emergency room and clinics of Dallas’ Parkland Hospital for eight years. No day could compare to November 22nd, 1963….
Scenic Route: Inside the ER After the JFK Assassination
Phyllis Hall was a nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and she was on duty on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated. Her…
A Dallas Emergency Room Nurse
For the next few features we’ll be visiting with Phyllis Hall, nurse at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. She was in the emergency room fifty years ago…
An Unexpected Surprise
All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The entire interview can be heard…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He provided first-hand accounts of the…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of 1963 his team had been…
On the Scene of An Assassination
In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas. When President Kennedy came to visit the area that…
The Willard Hotel
The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have forged deals, shared conversations or…
A Place For the President To Stay
The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed another place to stay the…
